Reports and analysis of the results in the Czech Republic general election held on the 20-21 October 2017.

Poll results gave the centrist ANO 2011 party (Action of Dissatisfied Citizens) a clear victory with 30% of the vote, which meant that the billionaire businessman and media mogul Andrej Babis, at the time awaiting trial on fraud charges, was likely to be the new Prime Minister.

The centre-right Civic Democratic Party (ODS) came second with 11% of the vote.

The ruling Czech Social Democratic Party received 7.3% of the vote, down from 20.5% at the 2013 election, and finished sixth in the league table of participating political parties.

The Czech Pirate Party (left-wing anto-establishment) and the Eurosceptic and anti-immigrant Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD)(right-wing anti-establishment) both received over 10% of the votes. The Communist Party came fifth in the election.

Despite their success Mr Babis and the ANO Party would need to build a coalition of parties to govern. Commentators speculated as to the nature of the coalition.

Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka started by announcing his resignation in May 2017 due to alleged financial irregularities of the government's finance minister, Andrej Babiš. Following a dispute with Czech President Miloš Zeman over the continuation of the cabinet, Mr Sobotka decided instead to dismiss Mr Babiš and replace him with a new finance minister.

The government crisis developed as opinion polls showed the decline of Mr Sobotka's Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) and wider victory margin for the ANO party, founded by Mr Babiš. Amid speculation of his continuation as the leader of the Social Democrats, Mr Sobotka announced his resignation as party leader on 15 June.